"What do you say?! The Jin merchants of Zhangjiakou Fort were copied by the West Factory? ”

When Zhang Gui led a cadre of the Xichang official school and his own family to return to Beijing with the money and grain confiscated from the Jin merchants, Wang Ji, the secretary of the military department, also learned the news of the Jin merchants being copied from Zhusheng Li Yifu.

After Wang Ji heard this, the whole person was like being punched in the chest on the spot, and he couldn't breathe for a long time.

He couldn't help but say in his heart: "At this moment, doesn't it mean that Your Majesty has internal money again, and we want Your Majesty's wishful thinking that you have no money to train the army in vain?" ”

"How dare you be full of late life, you can go to Chongwenmen to see when you are old! Now there are still people from the West Factory who are organizing people to transport grain, and in addition, the Fan family and others have also been taken to the prison of the Criminal Department, you can also go to the Criminal Department to ask. ”

Li Yifu replied.

"This West Factory is going to cut off the wealth of the world!"

Boom!

Zhang Wenda, who was also here, slapped his palm on the case, and said with trembling teeth.

"You're right, he has cut off a lot of people's financial routes, the key is that at this moment, the military food that we sent to Zhangjiakou Fort after drifting has now become the food of the imperial court, and the silver we also put in the Jin merchants has also entered the inner treasury!"

Hou Sui, who was also here, said distressedly.

Li Yifu said anxiously: "Ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about what to do?" ”

Wang Ji smiled bitterly: "What else can be done, is it possible to ask Your Majesty to return all the Jin merchant properties copied from the West Factory, so that Your Majesty can forgive them for their innocence?" ”

"Why not!"

"Many border town governors and general soldiers also have a share in the Jin merchants, and they also cut off the financial routes of many border town governors and general soldiers in doing so, isn't Your Majesty even afraid of this?!"

Li Yifu asked.

Hou Sui waved his hand and said: "Some things are not on the scale, there are no four or two, but if you weigh it, you can't beat it for a thousand catties!" It's nothing for everyone to secretly sell some food and sell some people to Jiannu, but if you really want to force the king openly, it still won't work, not everyone is willing to gamble the lives of the nine clans for a little money and food, and lose the loyalty and martyrdom of the ancestors for several lifetimes! ”

"That's right, this loss can only be eaten, but it can't be a loss in vain! The West Factory can't stay! ”

Wang Ji said.

"It shouldn't have been!"

Hou Sui said, and said: "If it weren't for Han Yi, a traitorous minister, who controlled the cabinet, and Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch, and those members of his eunuch party, such as Huo Weihua and others in the matter, would have to be refuted when His Majesty decreed the establishment of the cabinet!" ”

"It's no wonder that the Son of Heaven let Uncle Zhang Guo, a military minister, take charge of the West Factory, and now that he thinks about it, how can he copy the Jin merchants without a military minister directly using well-trained soldiers and horses?"

Wang Ji sneered.

"In any case, as the public just said, the West Factory can't be stayed, so I have to go up, please ask the Son of Heaven to remove the West Factory!"

Hou said.

Wang Ji said: "I'm afraid that the Son of Heaven will not agree." ”

"The reason for this is not the Son of Heaven!"

"Uncle Guo's move has touched the anger of the public, even if we don't go to the sparse, there will be other people who are sparse, how many people are involved behind the Jin merchants, the public doesn't know, unless the Son of Heaven really wants to kill all the ministers who speak normally, otherwise, if the Son of Heaven does not withdraw the West Factory one day, the courtiers will continue to hear from the West Factory every day!"

Hou said.

Wang Ji nodded.

At this time, Wei Dazhong came over and hurriedly said to Wang Ji and Hou Sui: "Your Majesty issued an order to set up the crime of traitor, and the profiteers who were copied were all destroyed by the nine clans, and the kneeling statues were cast at the gates of the cities everywhere in the world, and the kneeling statues were set up in the urinal to build new public toilets everywhere, so that they would be stinking for 10,000 years!" In addition, the Son of Heaven wants to discuss the new policy of Yuan Keli in the afternoon court of the Qinzheng Palace tomorrow. ”

"What?!"

Wang Ji was shocked when he heard this.

Hou Sui couldn't help but sigh: "Why is it so vicious! ”

"It is urgent to withdraw the West Factory, tomorrow at noon, to be the king!"

Wang Ji said busily.

Hou Sui nodded.

……

Apocalypse did decide to hold a noon court meeting at the Qinzheng Hall the next day.

Nominally, it is said that after Yuan Keli suggested that the court change the law and implement a new policy, the court should discuss how to implement the new policy.

In fact, it was because Tianqi got a copy from Mao Wenlong from Wei Zhongxian, and Mao Wenlong said in the transcript that he had only received 10% of his military salary, which was far from the amount that the Holy Decree expressly stated.

The insufficient military salaries received by the generals of the border towns were already a common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty.

Under normal circumstances, the generals of the border towns would not report the matter, after all, this involves the black yarn hats of many people up and down.

Now Mao Wenlong chooses to report this matter, the reason is very simple, that is, Wei Zhongxian supports him and intends to make a big deal.

After learning of this, Tianqi also decided to uncover the matter in the court, and took this as an opportunity to start a large-scale purge campaign.

Because before any new policy is implemented, it is necessary to rectify the rule of officials, otherwise any measures of the new policy cannot be implemented.

Apocalypse also understands this, and naturally will do the same.

……

"Your Majesty, the establishment of the West Factory violates the ancestral system, even if the Xian Temple is established, it is also later accepted by the words of the virtuous ministers, and the West Factory is abolished and the law is lenient in the world. Now that the imperial court has re-established the West Factory, it is really intended to make the tyranny again, so that His Majesty's benevolence and virtue will not be tarnished by it, and the ministers ask to remove the West Factory and abolish the regulations on the crime of traitor, which is not the way to govern the country with lenient sentences, nor is it the way of saints! ”

What Tianqi didn't expect was that on this day, Hou Sui took advantage of this noon dynasty to take the lead in attacking the West Factory and asked the emperor to withdraw the West Factory.

"Your Majesty, although the West Factory will handle a big case of profiteers collaborating with the enemy as soon as it is established, but the West Factory has too much power, is rampant, breaks the family at every turn, and cares about people's lives, so if it continues, I am afraid of disturbing the world, and the minister also asks His Majesty to issue an order to abolish the West Factory, and can no longer move Tai A to the ministers, so that the ministers breed!"

Then, even Wang Ji, the secretary of the military department, couldn't help but stand up and say.

"Your Majesty, if there is a West Factory, the court will be in chaos, and the West Factory will be uneasy in the world, especially this time when the border town giants are blatantly copied, it will inevitably involve the border ministers, I am afraid that it will cause instability in the border defense, and the ministers think that in order to make the world stable, the West Factory should be dismantled!"

Immediately, Zhang Wenda, the secretary of the ministry, also asked the emperor to remove the West Factory.

"Please Your Majesty to remove the West Factory!"

"Please Your Majesty to remove the West Factory!"

"Please Your Majesty to remove the West Factory!"

……

Immediately after that, more and more civil officials began to go out of the court, asking the apocalypse to withdraw the West Factory.

Obviously, the West Factory has indeed touched the anger of the public.

Some civil officials belonging to the Jin Shang party even denounced the West Factory with tears in their eyes.

Tianqi gradually sank his face, he wanted to take advantage of this early dynasty to attack the corrupt officials of the Manchu Dynasty, but he didn't expect these people to attack the Xichang first.

And these ministers have no intention of ending this, it seems that if the apocalypse does not express its position, they will not stop.

Wei Dazhong also stood up from the court at this time, and took out a joint letter from dozens of squires and landlords denouncing the West Factory that he had obtained before going to the court, and deliberately pushed the exhortation to ask the emperor to remove the West Factory to a climax.

But in order to collect protection money globally in the future, how could Zhang Gui tolerate these people slandering Xichang like this, and before Wei Dazhong spoke, he first went out of the court and said: "Your Majesty! Chen believes that the West Factory is not against the ancestral system, because although Taizu has not set up the West Factory, he has only said that the prime minister system cannot be set up again, and has never said that the West Factory cannot be set up. ”

Saying that, Zhang Gui asked Hou Zhishi: "May I ask Hou Gong, yes or no?" ”

Hou Sui was furious, and after a while, he held back one word: "Yes!" ”

"Is that a violation of the ancestral system?"

Zhang Gui asked.

Hou Sui didn't expect to be caught by Zhang Gui for such a shortcoming, and he didn't dare to be strong in front of the emperor, so he had to say: "Don't count!" ”

As he spoke, Hou Sui said to the apocalypse: "The minister lost his words, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

Then, Zhang Gui said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Da Sima said is wrong, and Xichang has only handled one case until now, that is, Fan's and other profiteers collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country!" I haven't handled other cases yet, how can I say that my West Factory is rampant and careless of human life? ! We are dealing with profiteers such as the Fan family, but the evidence is conclusive, even His Majesty has seen all the physical evidence, and Da Sima is still beating up like this, is it because he is in a gang with profiteers, or does he deliberately insinuate that His Majesty is a faint king, don't you know right from wrong?! ”

"Your Majesty, Da Sima is taking what has not happened to our Xichang head, this is a frame-up, this is a frame-up, please ask Your Majesty to punish him for the crime of lying and even bullying the king!"

"You!"

Wang Ji subconsciously pointed at Zhang Gui with an elephant wat and was so angry that he couldn't say the next words, so he had to follow and confess: "The minister lost his words!" ”

"In addition, Your Majesty, Otsuka Zai threatened the imperial court with border ministers not to set up a western factory, obviously intentionally saying that my Ming Dynasty's border ministers are all traitors who collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, not loyal ministers, he is provoking the relationship between the border ministers and the court, and intends to mess with my Ming Dynasty! Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty to send him to prison and asked him what his intentions were?! ”

Zhang Gui said again.

Zhang Wenda didn't expect Zhang Gui to be able to say so, so he couldn't help but hurriedly explain: "Your Majesty, the minister has no such intention!" ”

At this time, Tianqi saw that these ministers were deflated, and he was sincerely happy, so he said: "Since the West Factory has not violated the ancestral system, the second has not violated the national law, and the third has not reached the point of chaos in the world, there is no need to withdraw, now I want to talk about the issue of military salaries, according to the Phi Island General Soldier Mao Wenlong, he has received less than 10% of the military salary under his command this year, and I also let the East Factory check it." ”

As he spoke, the apocalypse shouted, "Bring people up!" ”

Wang Ji and other officials of the Ministry of War couldn't help but start to panic, and said secretly: "What does this Mao Wenlong mean?!" ”

Soon, Wei Zhongxian asked Jin Yiwei to bring a man in shackles up.

This man's name is Wang Wenyan, and he is a political broker active in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Ji became nervous as soon as he saw Wang Wenyan.

At this time, the apocalypse instructed Wang Wenyan: "Tell me everything you know." ”

"Yes!"

Wang Wenyan agreed: "The silver that has been drifted in the military department has been sorted out into an account book by the criminals, and now the account book has been handed over to Gonggong Wei, which has a detailed number of the lost military salaries of officials at all levels of the military department, of which the northern soldier Da Sima is divided into 1.8 million taels!" ”

"Your Majesty, drifting is an old routine! Non-ministers are greedy for ink, please Your Majesty Mingjian! ”

Wang Ji was busy arguing at this time, meaning that can civilian officials be greedy for stealing military salaries?

"Your Majesty, although drifting is an old example, it is not an ancestral system, and it is also greedy for ink! And the minister recently translated the "Great Edict" issued by Taizu, stipulating: Only those who are greedy for more than 60 taels of ink will have thin skin last! The minister thinks that since we want to talk about the ancestral system, please restore this ancestral system to rectify the rule of the world! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gui took out the "Great Message" that had been in his sleeve and was ready to take it out at any time to scare the ministers who were against him.

When the ministers present saw this, they were all shocked in place.

You must know that the courtiers have been deliberately not letting people know about this book after Zhu Yuanzhang's death.

So much so that many people are unfamiliar with this book.

As a result, Zhang Gui brought it up.

Even Emperor Sun Chengzong was very stunned: "What did your Uncle Zhang Guo do if you have nothing to do with the "Great Message"?" As an emperor, I didn't dare to mention this book to Your Majesty. The uncle of this country is ruthless enough, because some ministers use the ancestral system to target him in the West Factory, so he took this opportunity to take the "Great Message" out! ”

"Taizu's "Great Message", I have also heard of it, but unfortunately it is difficult to see it now, and I have repeatedly asked the masters to look for this book, but they have not found it."

Seeing this, Tianqi was like an artifact, and said excitedly: "Present the "Great Message" and take a closer look!" ”

At this time, Tianqi found that Wei Dazhong was still standing outside the court, so he asked: "You also want to ask for the removal of the West Factory?" ”

Wei Dazhong is a little afraid to confront his uncle Zhang Gui now, so he hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is not, the minister wants to say that it is actually very good to have a West Factory." ”